The words to say it : an autobiographical novel
/ by Marie Cardinal
- Picador edition
- 221 pages
Translation of: Les mots pour le dire.
This work explores the author's personal experience of psychoanalysis. It reveals her traumatic childhood and institutionalization, followed by her escape to the quiet cul-de-sac where her psychoanalysis lived. There, for many years, she made the journey towards recovery through Freudian analysis.